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«The greatest obstacle to being heroic is to doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is, to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
heroic, heroism, obeyed, obstacle, profoundest, resisted, truest
«Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Dreams,
Evil,
Revolution,
Soul
| Keywords:
accordance, eager, lurks, mystics, propose, proposing, refashion, revolutionaries, The Shadow, Utopia, Utopias
«Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.»
«Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Happiness,
World
| Keywords:
attained, chase, goose, incidentally, The Object of, wild-goose chase
«It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility. from The Scarlet Letter»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
continually, gradual, hostility, human process, impede, impeded, impedes, impeding, irritation, irritations, readily, scarlet, Scarlet Letter, selfishness, The Scarlet Letter, transformed
«A hero cannot be a hero unless in an heroic world»
«We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
after death, congratulate, congratulated, congratulates, congratulating, troubled, waking
«Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.»
«A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon»
«The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Ending,
Literature
| Keywords:
cash, gratification, lastly, One Family, pleasurable, sensible, toil
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